Its curious to me the connection between the 1947 sunspot cycle and the now repeating activity of 2013. Thought you might enjoy the article "timing comparison" Its more in depth than the article you lent me:)

Cheers and good morning

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23231420

Thank you and good morning ... the correlations are interesting indeed, and the X flare March 11 was phenomenal to watch, especially with the now defunct NICT program (I'm still sad about that).

For me, I'm just hoping these satellites, programs, and on-line data continue on so that we can see proof positive either way whether there truly is a connection or not. There wasn't much in the way of data in 1947, especially in what we are privy to now, and I can only hope despite the lack of funding and accountability of the human race in general, that the data continues and improves.

NASA SDO has already taken over 100 million images of our Sun in very high definition

SDO to Ultra High Definition Comparison

A new kind of television made headlines at the 2013 annual Consumer Electronics Show in early January, 2013 – Ultra High Definition TV. With four times as many pixels as a current high definition (HD) TV, viewers at the show reported being impressed with how crisp and vibrant the pictures appear.

This comes as no surprise to scientists who study the sun using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) instruments together capture an image almost once a second that is twice again as large as what the ultra high-def screens can display. Such detailed pictures show features on the sun that are as small as 200 miles across, helping researchers observe such things as what causes giant eruptions on the sun known as coronal mass ejections (CME) that can travel toward Earth and interfere with our satellites...

NASA SDO has already taken over 100 million images of our Sun in very high definition

SDO to Ultra High Definition Comparison

A new kind of television made headlines at the 2013 annual Consumer Electronics Show in early January, 2013 – Ultra High Definition TV. With four times as many pixels as a current high definition (HD) TV, viewers at the show reported being impressed with how crisp and vibrant the pictures appear.

This comes as no surprise to scientists who study the sun using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) instruments together capture an image almost once a second that is twice again as large as what the ultra high-def screens can display. Such detailed pictures show features on the sun that are as small as 200 miles across, helping researchers observe such things as what causes giant eruptions on the sun known as coronal mass ejections (CME) that can travel toward Earth and interfere with our satellites...

It seems we have at least one more small CME on the way. The data gaps on the public sites have become insurmountable for me to keep track of ejections. Looks like SEEDS has gone on hiatus; and huge 8-hour or more gaps in the STEREO images, as well as the missing SOHO images that magically appear a day later. The CACTus CME details just don't match up with what I've been seeing.

To top it off, SIDC, NOAA, and NASA all have a totally different velocity and arrival forecast. And these folks have a lot more data and expertise in these calculations. In short, I give up trying to track these puny, little CMEs until the BIG ONE comes along.

The data gaps on the public sites have become insurmountable for me to keep track of ejections. Looks like SEEDS has gone on hiatus; and huge 8-hour or more gaps in the STEREO images, as well as the missing SOHO images that magically appear a day later. The CACTus CME details just don't match up with what I've been seeing.

Quoting: Hugh M Eye

It's quite ironic that all the tools are showing data gaps. It piqued my interest when you said 8-hour gap. That seems about the same time as the gap in HAARP data - [link to www.haarp.alaska.edu]

When I see consistent data gaps across tools, my analytical mind thinks that the experts have some data they just can't figure out and will not release. Things that make you go.....hmmmmmm

The data gaps on the public sites have become insurmountable for me to keep track of ejections. Looks like SEEDS has gone on hiatus; and huge 8-hour or more gaps in the STEREO images, as well as the missing SOHO images that magically appear a day later. The CACTus CME details just don't match up with what I've been seeing.

Quoting: Hugh M Eye

It's quite ironic that all the tools are showing data gaps. It piqued my interest when you said 8-hour gap. That seems about the same time as the gap in HAARP data - [link to www.haarp.alaska.edu]

When I see consistent data gaps across tools, my analytical mind thinks that the experts have some data they just can't figure out and will not release. Things that make you go.....hmmmmmm

U.S. and E.U. space pirates getting concerned about Chinese space pirates. Get ready for Space War I.

"Details of the latest Chinese moves that have raised US concerns remain classified.US officials charge that China’s anti-satellite activities are part of a major military modernization that has seen Beijing test two new stealth fighters, step up cyber attacks on foreign computer networks and launch more commercial and military satellites last year than the US.China still lags behind the US in most military fields.“What we’re seeing is a heightened sense in the United States that China is a potential threat and that it has the technology to be a threat if it wishes to,” said Jonathan McDowell, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.“As China becomes a space superpower, and given that it does have a significant military component to its space program, it is inevitable that the US will be concerned about threats to its most valued satellite systems, whether or not China actually intends to deploy such aggressive systems,” he said."-snip- [link to www.taipeitimes.com]

probably old news by now...found it a interesting read though...They can`t seem to make up their minds on this cycle,

"A comparable event occurred in 1859 -- a solar storm called the Carrington Event. Scientists tell FoxNews.com the impact of the impending solar storm maximum will be at least as big as the 1859 Carrington Event, which caused outages of telegraph networks, the Victorian era’s version of the Internet."Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]

How the Sun’s interior generates its magnetic field is a long-standing mystery for heliophysicists.

It is commonly believed that there is an electromagnetic dynamo inside the Sun. That dynamo has long been thought to be powered by two forces: the “stretching and winding” of magnetic fields due to the Sun’s differential rotation, or change in rotation rate, caused by differences in latitude, and the “twisting” of those fields because of rotational effects on structures rising up from deep in the Sun’s interior. The former is called “the omega effect” and the latter is called “the alpha effect”.

Until recently, those two forces were thought to be what powers the Sun’s magnetic field. Those movements through the Sun’s substance, as well as thermal convection due to the hypothetical radiation generated at the core, are required to be above a certain power threshold or the theory cannot be sustained.

According to a recent press release, researchers from New York University, Princeton University, the Max Planck Institute, and NASA have determined that the convective plasma flows in the Sun are 100 times too slow for the aforementioned phenomena to be generated.

Several filament eruptions today between 08:00z and 10:00z. One was north of 1652, one in the SW, and one beyond the SE limb. Another 8-hour gap with SOHO, so I can't say if anything is Earth-directed.

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. The new image is being released Monday along with NuSTAR's view of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif. "These new images showcase why NuSTAR is giving us an unprecedented look at the cosmos," said Lou Kaluzienski, NuSTAR program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington. "With NuSTAR's greater sensitivity and imaging capability, we're getting a wealth of new information on a wide array of cosmic phenomena in the high-energy X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum."

The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris around Vega makes the star similar to another observed star called Fomalhaut. The data are consistent with both stars having inner, warm belts and outer, cool belts separated by a gap. This architecture is similar to the asteroid and Kuiper belts in our own solar system.

What is maintaining the gap between the warm and cool belts around Vega and Fomalhaut? The results strongly suggest the answer is multiple planets. Our solar system's asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, is maintained by the gravity of the terrestrial planets and the giant planets, and the outer Kuiper belt is sculpted by the giant planets.

"Our findings echo recent results showing multiple-planet systems are common beyond our sun," said Kate Su, an astronomer at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

How the Sun’s interior generates its magnetic field is a long-standing mystery for heliophysicists.

It is commonly believed that there is an electromagnetic dynamo inside the Sun. That dynamo has long been thought to be powered by two forces: the “stretching and winding” of magnetic fields due to the Sun’s differential rotation, or change in rotation rate, caused by differences in latitude, and the “twisting” of those fields because of rotational effects on structures rising up from deep in the Sun’s interior. The former is called “the omega effect” and the latter is called “the alpha effect”.

Until recently, those two forces were thought to be what powers the Sun’s magnetic field. Those movements through the Sun’s substance, as well as thermal convection due to the hypothetical radiation generated at the core, are required to be above a certain power threshold or the theory cannot be sustained.

According to a recent press release, researchers from New York University, Princeton University, the Max Planck Institute, and NASA have determined that the convective plasma flows in the Sun are 100 times too slow for the aforementioned phenomena to be generated.

Hugh,I am sure you know that was originally reported around 2011/12 but very important for the following reasons -

'These new findings based on SDO imagery, if verified, would upend our understanding of how heat is transported outwards by the Sun and challenges existing explanations of the formation of sunspots, the magnetic field generation of the sun, not to mention the concept of convective mixing of light and heavy elements in the solar atmosphere. 'However, our results (PDF) suggest that convective motions in the Sun are nearly 100 times smaller than these current theoretical expectations,' continued Hanasoge, also a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Plank Institute in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany. 'These motions are indeed that slow in the Sun, then the most widely accepted theory concerning the generation of solar magnetic field is broken, leaving us with no compelling theory to explain its generation of magnetic fields and the need to overhaul our understanding of the physics of the Sun's interior' [link to science.slashdot.org]

Several filament eruptions today between 08:00z and 10:00z. One was north of 1652, one in the SW, and one beyond the SE limb. Another 8-hour gap with SOHO, so I can't say if anything is Earth-directed.

Though somewhat decayed, AR1654 has stretched out so large that it no longer fits in a hi-res smilie! The leading spot appears to be growing again. I had to back off to a lower 2048 resolution image. This region is now directly facing us.

I think it's safe to say that there are 2 possibly 3 CMEs' that will have been on Stereo Ahead based on the degradation of the Streamers [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] I will find them,I will.

Edit:Hugh got them covered in his Filament eruptions on H alpha,last page.

Quoting: Spittin'Cesium

Certainly no let up in uncertainty

Quoting: TS66

Confusion reigns king thanks to missing data for sure!

Hello 66

This is a bit messy but some of the ejections are visible here [link to halpha.nso.edu] surely at least one Geo-effective CME from the Southern Filament and another possibly from the region formally known as 1657 formally known as S2164 in the middle of the disc - Ima' check out 193 now : )